Doc Scurlock

Josiah Gordon "Doc" Scurlock (11 January 1849-25 July 1929) was an American Wild West gunfighter who was affiliated with the Lincoln County Regulators.

Biography
Josiah Gordon Scurlock was born in Tallapoosa County, Alabama in 1849, and he was nicknamed "Doc" while studying medicine in New Orleans. In 1870, he shot and killed a card game rival in Mexico, and he lost his front teeth to a bullet that exited through the back of his mouth. In 1871, he returned to the United States and worked as a line rider for John Chisum, defending Chisum from cattle rustlers. In 1875, he left Chisum's service due to Chisum's refusal to pay him. and he met Charlie Bowdre in Arizona, opening a cheese factory on the Gila River with him. In 1876, they closed their factory and moved to Lincoln County, New Mexico, where they were taken in by John Tunstall. Following Tunstall's murder in February 1878, they formed the Lincoln County Regulators with other former Tunstall employees, and Scurlock took part in most of the battles of the Lincoln County War. He rode with Billy's gang until Chisum sent a posse after the gang for stealing his cattle, upon which Scurlock left the gang. He moved to Texas in 1879 with his wife Yen Sun, and he kept the Potter County mail station. He died in Eastland, Texas in 1929 at the age of 80.